QLUB vs HelloMe US

Every queer app promises community and delivers a grid of strangers. QLUB is built the other way around: real places, real events, and real groups near you — and no ads in the way. FIND WHAT'S ACTUALLY AROUND YOU Open the map and see what's there: queer bars and clubs, community orgs, bookstores and queer-owned businesses — plus events, groups and spontaneous hangouts. Filter by category, search by name, save your favourites. Everything is ordered by how close it is and what's happening soonest. RSVP AND SEE WHO'S GOING Tap once to RSVP to an event or a hangout. See who else is coming, message everyone in one place, and find it all again under My Calendar. Hosting? You get invitations, a guest list, and a share link that opens even for friends who don't have the app yet. HANGOUTS: SPONTANEOUS PLANS, NO PRESSURE Post a Hangout when you want company right now — coffee in an hour, a walk, a last-minute ticket going spare. Anyone nearby can join. It's the easiest way to turn "we should hang out sometime" into tonight. GROUPS FOR YOUR PEOPLE Join Groups built around what you're into: queer climbers, trans book club, sober social, new in town. Open, approval-only or invite-only. Every group gets its own chat, its own events, and a members list that isn't a leaderboard. MESSAGING THAT RESPECTS YOU Direct messages are end-to-end encrypted. Group and event chats keep plans in one place. Message requests stay out of your inbox until you accept them, and you can block or report from any profile. PRIVACY THAT COSTS NOTHING Set your profile to private, turn location sharing off, or hide your distance from other people. Every one of these controls is free — nobody should have to pay to stay hidden. THE DIRECTORY More than 5,000 researched LGBTQ+ listings and 400+ community Spots across all 50 US states, DC, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — bars, clinics, shops, nonprofits, community centers. Every entry is checked against a strict bar: queer-owned or genuinely community-centred, not just "everyone welcome". DAILY DIGEST One clean daily read: LGBTQ+ news and community stories, chosen by editors instead of served by an engagement algorithm. No doomscroll, no rage bait. PRIDE + FESTIVALS Pride dates, events and local resources, kept current year-round rather than for two weeks in June — plus the queer festivals worth planning a trip around. TRAVEL GUIDES LGBTQ+ city guides for 50+ destinations: where to go, what's worth your time, and the local laws and norms you should know before you land. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico City, Berlin, Bangkok, Cape Town and dozens more. HEALTH Plain-language guides to sexual health, gender-affirming care, mental health and insurance — plus crisis hotlines you can reach in two taps. MODERATION YOU CAN SEE Photos and public text are screened automatically before they go live, and reports are reviewed by a person. You can report any listing, event, post or profile from the page you're already on. AD-FREE No ads. No selling your data. No paying to be seen. QLUB is free to use — the whole map, every event, every group, every guide. STARTING IN USA AND CANADA, Australia The Directory, Travel, Pride and Health sections work everywhere in the US and Canada from day one. The community side — events, groups, hangouts — we're opening city by city, starting with Los Angeles to cover all major cities in the USA and Canada by end of 2026. SUPPORT QLUB (OPTIONAL) QLUB is free to use. Supporter is an optional auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly at the price shown in the app. It unlocks no features and no limits — it funds servers, moderation and staying ad-free, and renews unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the period ends, in your Apple Account settings. Download QLUB. Find your people. Actually go outside. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://qlubapp.com/privacy Qlub Terms: https://qlubapp.com/terms

Know when your closest friends are actually free — without sending a single message. HelloMe is a privacy-first presence app for the handful of people who matter most. Instead of "you up?" texts and unanswered calls, everyone just sets a simple color that says how reachable they are right now: GREEN — Free: open for a call, reach out anytime PURPLE — Text me: can't talk, happy to text RED — Busy: heads-down, please hold off One glance tells you who's around. No feeds, no likes, no endless chat threads — just ambient awareness of the people you love. CIRCLES Group your friends into circles — Close Friends, Family, the gym crew — and set a different status for each. You can be "Free" for family and "Busy" for everyone else, all at once. Each circle gets its own look, so you always know which one you're in. HOW IT WORKS • Sign in with your phone number (a quick one-time code — no passwords) • Add friends by number, or optionally find the ones already on HelloMe from your contacts • Set your status per circle; your friends see it update instantly • Get a gentle notification when a friend becomes free — you choose exactly what pings you, with quiet hours • Tap a friend to call or text through your own apps — HelloMe never messages for you BUILT TO RESPECT YOU • No ads. No tracking. No analytics SDKs. Nothing sold. • Finding friends from contacts is optional — phone numbers are matched on our server and immediately discarded, never stored, sold, or shared • Block and report anyone, anytime • Delete your account and all your data from inside the app, instantly HelloMe is for real friendship, not another social network. Set your color. Be reachable to the people who matter — and invisible to everyone else.